Have deployed my Rails 5.2 app via Capistrano, and am having problems with ActionCable. I am using Nginx, Puma and Lets Encrypt.
I have tried many combinations of configuration, but each time am receiving the same error. I am not sure how to debug this issue, and suggestions as well and any tips on re-arranging my ngnx.conf would be well-appreciated.
Have changed the real website to website.com
nginx.conf
upstream puma {
server unix:///home/deploy/apps/website/shared/tmp/sockets/website-puma.sock;
}
server {
server_name website.com www.website.com;
root /home/deploy/apps/website/current/public;
index index.html;
location ^~ /assets/ {
gzip_static on;
expires max;
add_header Cache-Control public;
}
try_files $uri/index.html $uri @puma;
location @puma {
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_pass http://puma;
}
location /cable {
proxy_pass http://puma;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade websocket;
proxy_set_header Connection Upgrade;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
}
error_page 500 502 503 504 /500.html;
client_max_body_size 10M;
keepalive_timeout 10;
listen [::]:443 ssl ipv6only=on; # managed by Certbot
listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/website.com/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/website.com/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot
}
server {
if ($host = www.website.com) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
if ($host = website.com) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
server_name website.com www.website.com;
return 404; # managed by Certbot
}
config/production.rb
config.action_cable.mount_path = '/cable'
config.action_cable.url = 'wss://website.com/cable'
config.action_cable.allowed_request_origins = [ 'https://website.com', 'http://website.com' ]
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UPDATE
Updated nginx.conf
upstream puma {
server unix:///home/deploy/apps/immersive/shared/tmp/sockets/immersive-puma.sock;
}
server {
if ($host = www.immersive.ch) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
if ($host = immersive.ch) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
server_name immersive.ch www.immersive.ch;
return 404; # managed by Certbot
}
server {
server_name immersive.ch www.immersive.ch;
root /home/deploy/apps/immersive/current/public;
index index.html;
location ^~ /assets/ {
gzip_static on;
expires max;
add_header Cache-Control public;
}
try_files $uri/index.html $uri @puma;
location @puma {
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_pass http://puma;
}
location /cable {
proxy_pass http://puma;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_pass_request_headers on;
proxy_buffering off;
proxy_redirect off;
break;
}
error_page 500 502 503 504 /500.html;
client_max_body_size 10M;
keepalive_timeout 10;
listen [::]:443 ssl ipv6only=on; # managed by Certbot
listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/immersive.ch/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/immersive.ch/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot
}
production.rb
config.action_cable.mount_path = '/cable'
config.action_cable.url = 'wss://immersive.ch/cable'
config.action_cable.allow_same_origin_as_host = true
config.action_cable.allowed_request_origins = [ '*' ]
#config.action_cable.allowed_request_origins = [ 'https://immersive.ch', 'http://immersive.ch' ]
Partial output of curl
> GET /cable HTTP/1.1
> Host: immersive.ch
> User-Agent: curl/7.54.0
> Accept: */*
> Origin: https://immersive.ch
> Sec-WebSocket-Key: MIN4DsiwEAutsE11kgG5rg==
> Upgrade: websocket
> Connection: Upgrade
> Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13
>
< HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
< Server: nginx/1.15.5 (Ubuntu)
< Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:10:43 GMT
< Content-Type: text/plain
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Connection: keep-alive
< Cache-Control: no-cache
< X-Request-Id: 7a9aa8f1-676d-419b-9e4f-0c1bb38bcaa2
< X-Runtime: 0.004730
<
* Connection #0 to host immersive.ch left intact
Page not found%
puma.rb
threads_count = ENV.fetch("RAILS_MAX_THREADS") { 5 }.to_i
threads threads_count, threads_count
port ENV.fetch("PORT") { 3000 }
environment ENV.fetch("RAILS_ENV") { "development" }
workers 2
daemonize true
plugin :tmp_restart
EDIT 2
/var/logs/nginx/access.log
HTTP/1.1" 200 4447 "https://immersive.ch/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.103 Safari/537.36"
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [16/Apr/2019:22:33:58 +0200] "GET /cable HTTP/1.1" 404 24 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.103 Safari/537.36"
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [16/Apr/2019:22:33:59 +0200] "GET /cable HTTP/1.1" 404 24 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.103 Safari/537.36"
puma.error.log
I, [2019-04-16T22:39:06.100106 #21136] INFO -- : [80dc2a43-13e1-499e-a8f6-9fd54d48270b] Started GET "/cable" for xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx at 2019-04-16 22:39:06 +0200
I, [2019-04-16T22:39:06.103811 #21136] INFO -- : [80dc2a43-13e1-499e-a8f6-9fd54d48270b] Started GET "/cable/"[non-WebSocket] for xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx at 2019-04-16 22:39
E, [2019-04-16T22:39:06.103943 #21136] ERROR -- : [80dc2a43-13e1-499e-a8f6-9fd54d48270b] Failed to upgrade to WebSocket (REQUEST_METHOD: GET, HTTP_CONNECTION: close, HTTP_UPGRADE: )
I, [2019-04-16T22:39:06.104062 #21136] INFO -- : [80dc2a43-13e1-499e-a8f6-9fd54d48270b] Finished "/cable/"[non-WebSocket] for xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx at 2019-04-16 22:39
puma.access.log
2019-04-16 20:58: HTTP parse error, malformed request (127.0.0.1): #<Puma::HttpParserError: Invalid HTTP format, parsing fails.>
ActionCable answers 404 when Origin header is missing or does not match/invalid.
Check that it's not you regular 404:
curl -v 'https://your_site.com/cable' -H 'Origin: https://your_site.com' -H 'Sec-WebSocket-Key: MIN4DsiwEAutsE11kgG5rg==' -H 'Upgrade: websocket' -H 'Connection: Upgrade' -H 'Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13'
When everything is fine there'll be HTTP/1.1 101 Switching Protocols, on origin mismatch - just Page not found body, or your regular 404 page if there's some other routing trouble.
Make sure allowed_request_origins in settings is correct. Note that it includes port, if it's non-standard. Check which Origin browser sends in devtools
Also there's config.action_cable.allow_same_origin_as_host = true (the default, needs correct Host and X-Forwarded-Proto headers)
Then we need nginx to pass all the headers that are being used to reconstruct origin:
location /cable {
proxy_pass http://puma;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme; # <- most probably this one is missing
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_pass_request_headers on; # this is default, but just to be sure
proxy_buffering off;
proxy_redirect off;
break;
}
Update:
Remaining two cases when activecable responds with this is failed connection authentication and missing websocket driver(should not be the case for puma)
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